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my name is rabbi david Pardo and I oh you live welcome to our show tonight we're doing a special for the next week putting on one of these EPOS episodes every week nights Monday through Thursday this is a place for inspiration and entertainments front row seats community leaders or bunin activists experts people in the news musicians and whomever you want we want to hear from you be in touch please at OU you live at OU you org o you live at ob.org or drop a comment in the comment box below if you're watching on the OE website we have common set up if you're watching on Facebook if you're watching on YouTube if you're watching on Facebook hit the like button to be in the loop on when the next episode is same thing for YouTube hit subscribe hit the bell tonight's episode is sponsored by Marla and Stanley fro enger' for this close of Hawaii you're all very thoughtful email us if you're interested in sponsoring an episode we have quite lined up for you tonight we're gonna hear from a college student who built her own closet organization overnight we're gonna hear from David Bush Afghan we're also gonna hear from you spinner to stay tuned in the meantime it is my distinct pleasure to welcome a man who is nau Strahl right now on rabbi moshe Hauer who is the incoming executive vice vice president of the Orthodox Union he has been the spiritual leader of congregation Bonet Jacob sha Ricci own in Baltimore for over two decades he is a highly emphasized education and Torah and social service in his community he's a national board member of AIPAC has prioritized Israel in a in a strong way and we I have to I'm very excited to soon call him our boss but we have a lot of questions for him now or a by Howard hello why you do Shalom Aleichem have I have or how are do I like I'm solo I'm strong Tyson seagulls I like your setup a lot better than mine okay maybe you've been doing this for longer this uh my setup was a setup earlier this week in the in the basement and the bunker where we're writing this out rabbi how're I I fascinated to know you you have been a shrill rabbi you've been a community leader you've been a congregational rug for over two decades and you are you haven't started working at the OU you yet but no one would know you have shifted gears to a national perspective at a at a really fascinating time a scary time time of a much interest I'm curious to hear from you what that shift has been like the local to the national it's this period has been intense for everybody on every level and it's on the one hand of course all of us are filled with with concern given the situation and at the same time the the privilege I think that that those of us involved in communal work which I think today includes just about every member of the Jewish people it's it's been remarkably remarkably inspiring an unusually intense experience to see the amount the amount of energy and effort and innovation and creativity and a desire to help that have come from everywhere as you said they were right now I'm sort of like sitting on a sense in in in our own shul and community you know Hashem we have lots of lots of help but we're all working together all the staff the other a blenheim initial and Olvera bottom in the community for very serious issues that we have to deal with in Baltimore like every Jewish city like every city that has any kind of a population and it has to has to deal with and trying to help out on the on the national level with the Orthodox Union Allan Fagan the executive vice president of the Oh you has done something remarkable in helping the organization transfer it seamlessly through this crisis to be able to completely transform their programs and remain consistent with the programs and whether it's NC sy or a fad or JL I see everything just is going and continuing and serving all its members in a in a completely completely different different format that's fascinating to know could you tell us those of us who don't work at the oh what the oh you is is doing differently now during this during the kovat 19 crisis you mention NCS wise it's a totally virtually what does that mean and and what are other organizations doing well all the organizations are finding the way to be able to service the populations that they surface without being able to have them at a Chaba tones I mean NCS why is there has this is prime season for Shabbat so named for people getting together and all of those things of course have been canceled and the same with with other organizations which are built to be able to deal with the kids or the students or whatever it is in person have not forfeited their mandate you say okay we can't we have to cancel the Shabbat own so okay we'll be back with you next time we could do a chef at home know they're there like we've seen communities and Shoals do to be able to shift platforms to be able to hold community together to be able to service each other at this time in a completely different mode and on every level the organization has done it without standing leadership you have to speak about when you think about oh you the first thing you think about usually is Lu kosher and the tremendous tremendous transformation which they have had two experienced employees now all over being able to work being able to maintain creative ways to be able to maintain supervision and the thousands the thousands of enquiries which owe you is now fielding because of the changes in pace of plans for everybody in the world and stepping up to the plate to be able to do that it's a dramatic thing dramatic thing to witness the other opportunity that we have that we've had on the on the national on a national stage is to do what we can on two fronts number one to be able to help shools to whatever degree we can to hold their communities together now these kinds of tools like the tools that you're using here tonight so many tools have figured out how to take to the airwaves to be able to dive in together even if they're not diving in a technical pelagic million that's hold on to community we're trying very hard with all these new challenges to be able to provide communities with the ability to service their own it's not the role of a national organization so usurp the role of community or to replace the role of community our primary role is to support the community and to be able to help that real impersonal community to be able to do its thing in trying to do that we get to watch and to see what each community is doing for its own and it's unbelievable it's unbelievable the amount of energy and creativity which is you have exhibited you share some stories with us just look anybody anybody is out there you see the the level of programming which people are doing for each other in terms of Torah programming in terms of B's manana you know we we we have seen all kinds of fantastic examples of communities doing binding together to do everything from suddenly becoming shoes becoming grocery stores to communities creating volunteer efforts to deliver food and provide you know necessary things for people who shouldn't be going out at all during this during this time during this crisis every kind of service there are so many innovative that people are doing and creating in order to be able to do it and to provide it now I was I was just mentioning when we read Avenue middle some are together as a shul that's in the parsha that we read today that we're reading the Shabbos amir atashi i'm will be reading in our homes most of us this Shabbos we read about the fundraising campaign for the Michigan and we're told that they came and they complained you know the people are bringing their too much it's too much there's no successful campaign in all of us right acting for the past 26 years I do in the rabbinate I made the same joke every year once I learned others that that was the first and the last time that a Jewish fundraising campaign ever said it's too much it's things obligatory for show rabbis yeah yeah you may have to think of a new one as an executive vice president okay well now we understand it now we understand it because when we think about campaigns we think about people sending money and you could always put more money in your bank accounts you can always put some way in a you know in a in a and a fund for the future but when people are bringing their energies and everybody wants to do something it can't really be overwhelming the amount of ideas the amount of desire to do could sometimes make a person stand back and say you know what we can't handle it it's too much it's too much we need you know the the metaphor which I've been hearing very repeatedly repeatedly over these past few days is like trying to drink from the fire hose we're just too much is coming at you because everybody wants to do and it's a magnificent thing and that's one of the things which were which we are working very actively on is trying to actually pull from all those many many amazing initiatives the best of the best so that we can share them so that the ideas that that seem to have the best applicability all around will be able to will be able to be shared if I can share with you David just one of the most magnificent things is that every day at one o'clock we have a call where there are a few words of inspiration a few words of physic from from a Congregational rabbi from one of the rabbi's of the country and we have everyday over a thousand people get on the phone for a 15 minute call for a little bit of inspiration and to say a few capitalist tell him a few songs together something we're able to do as a community it's really really beautiful a beautiful and magnificent thing amongst many things that that that the community is doing to draw together at this at this time that's that's very impressive that that's very inspiring it's uh it's exciting to see however mobilizing and that I keep telling people I told my wife first if this had happened 20 years ago it would be such a different story I just you know the the way we're using technology right now the way my kids are looking into staying in their schools the way people in the community are chatting with each other it's just everything happens at the at the time it happens right yeah yeah it's a it's a delicious irony that Jules have been struggling for years with the fact that you know those cellphones ensure they make it so difficult to be able to run a shul and today our schools and our communities for this past week are running because of cell phones there they there suddenly turns into the into the into the greatest gift and yeah I've got as well Hashem blesses us with things and sometimes we have to figure out exactly when when and where to use them rather however i just want those of those of us watching what's one thing you'd like people to walk away with something they can do some way they can be part of the effort it's some way they can be part of the moment something they can tell their grandkids about I'm not going to answer that question exactly what somebody can tell their grandkids about excuse me but I what I do want to say is something which I think we have to say over and over and over again and we've taken to try to say it in four words and those four words are stay home save lives with everything which is going on our primary responsibility is to public health to the health of our communities to make sure that we are way ahead in terms of following all of the structions which are there by the health authorities and the simplest formula the answer to 85% of the questions that are at the that are thrown our way about should we do this should we do that are those four words stay home save lives we need to somehow be reducing the circulation of the of this of this disease you know we're all thinking about Pesach and on the night of Pesach there was a lesson which was learned for generations and that was that the safest place in the world for a person to be is in their house bottomless 8su each may pass up a cell at BO care how kodesh worldly Shem said to the Jewish people in Russia a famous said to the Jewish people stay home pace at night stay home save lives this is the lesson for us of the prepay sell season that we need to really be attentive to it not to make exceptions not to just go for a walk with you know with one friend for a couple of days to be very very careful and limited in going out so that we can slow the spread of this it's there it's out there we'll be out there but the the public health rules are wise and we should be at the at the forefront of adhering to them yeah yeah we should be the shining example of it absolutely we should and and so many people I've heard so many people speak pointedly and properly that you know this really gives us an opportunity to a little bit rebuild a dynamic within our homes which is which is something special but at the same time I think we also have to be mindful of something else and that is that there are many people who don't have company in their homes who are home by themselves and a great call of the moments for which everyone can step forward you ask what people can do there are all kinds of creative juices producing most amazing creative programs which will benefit hundreds or thousands but where the real action is is benefiting one at a time and everyone who's listening to this program and everyone who's out there we'll just take a moment every day to call maybe once once a day or once in the morning once in the evening to check in with somebody who's who's home by themselves and spend a little time relax time to check in to talk to connect what an amazing thing that would be what an incredible thing that would be ultimately we all know that the redemption of the Jewish people is gonna come from guess it from kindness from our giving to each other the colostrum may we see Amira Shem a kindness come from above in response to the tremendous tremendous outpouring of kindness which is being felt all around us Holloman I mean rather have our beautiful words and meant to shine so we meet again in person on the other side of this thank you for thank you for joining us thank you very much to Cain Lamar thanks for being here you are on oh you live my name is rabbi david Pardo thanks for tuning in we got a great rest of the night lined up for you stay tuned for a conversation with David Bush African and for music from UC spinner if you are tuning in we want to hear from you we want to know what you are interested in and who you want to have on the show right here for the next week email us at oh you live at OE org or write it in the comments tag someone you know last night someone tagged you shairi bow we'll see how that goes the time difference might be a little difficult I want to thank Marla and Stan fro enger' who sponsored tonight's episode was Costco let you stir all and I want to introduce our next guest Nicole then I'm gonna say it right I'm gonna say it correctly I'm Marone Jen I'm a wrong again of course the proper Dutch pronunciation and Nicole how you doing I'm amazing Nicole you're a senior at Barnard yeah you're senior at Barnard and you you had a perfect segue from Emma Howard you had a fascinating pretty I you know I'm not gonna embarrass you but inspiring reaction to the to the Cova nineteen crisis what do you do I was involved in creating the Armed Forces Kovan nineteen volunteer group I'm not the only one who started it I'm working with two other people named Aaron prison and Ellie Calley who are helping me we basically created this dispatching service to put it simply where we're connecting people in need people in quarantine throughout the New York in New Jersey areas with people who are healthy people who are able to walk around get errands things of that nature so we're connecting them and having the volunteers run different errands things like that who can't go out so that's I mean that that's wild how many how many volunteers do you have working with you for you at this point so the numbers are really like doubling every single day I think last time we checked it was around 600 volunteers that we have on on whatsapp groups wait are you running all of this through what's up we're running all of it through whatsapp and email and a phone number that's ringing on multiple phones and that's that's it a Google Voice number yeah so first time it's just amazing that you took like three free utilities and are using it to run a 600 person organization basically that you built overnight just a crazy way to think about things 600 people that's that's wild and you're running it with two of your friends also also Barnard Columbia um Aaron Priven is a student at Columbia he's actually a freshman and Ellie Kali is not in school he's involved with like various different organizations and is just jumping around just okay just very very good people and you're and you're running messages for people who are quarantine and can't do things for themselves that's so do you have any share some stories from the field that's what sorts of things are what sort of things are happening what's out there yeah sure so I guess the easiest way to put it is kind of like Hut's medical help is like I'm so versus Cova 19 took grocery help it's mostly helping people get food which is obviously the most important necessity for people who can't leave their homes or don't want to leave their homes ever ours saying like staying home even if you're not necessarily sick just to avoid if you're immunocompromised or you've children who are immunocompromised or you're elderly so we primarily been helping people in those categories get things like groceries but we've also been providing people with games for their children if that's something that they need even simple things like dry cleaning pick up or coffee orders things that we just want people basically to maintain the comfort of their lives as best possible so nothing is too small for us if you can't leave to get your coffee we want to get your copy for something too big I'm curious like what's what's well people do send very very extensive grocery lists so we're trying I want the same and type of gefilte fish not that specific from multiple stores things like that are a little bit more complicated but still we're trying to accommodate that so as of now we're we're trying to accommodate everything that we can oh that's that's that's very impressive is it has anything you know besides the grocery list is anything kind of throwing you surprised you impressed you it could be an inspiring story it could be like a ridiculous story also um one thing that comes to mind we have a couple first of all just in general a couple people reached out to us in the name of other people so like let's say there's been a couple elderly people who've had like friends or neighbors who have reached out to us for them without them even knowing I'm saying like I know they could probably even help one situation that success as it receives well yeah yeah so like in one specific situation there's a Holocaust survivor who lives in Windermere he's 96 years old and he had someone who reached out to us in the community and he didn't even know this person reach out to us but they basically told us that he doesn't have many groceries and that he could really use someone to drop off groceries so I actually took that call with Aaron and we went to deliver he was just so pleasantly surprised and and within a safe distance he was explaining to us his life story and was telling us how I'm so thankful and and just being able to have that experience and not even from him contacting us but from someone else who knows he probably needed help contacting us with things like that have been very inspiring to see that's incredible do you know of other other people other organizations who have come together and are doing similar work or other things that are happening out there that we don't know about yeah definitely I mean there are a few other groups I'm not sure like what their names are necessarily but we've just gotten calls from really all all over the world and all the United States about what we're doing and how they could do it we've gotten calls from England Maryland Miami the West Coast Australia like all these different communities that are really wanting to do a word zooming so there definitely are other people who are doing it and it's inspiring to see that also that people are really taking initiative in their own communities that's as well so if it's if someone wants to get involved someone wants to step up or let me ask you a different question because you're I mean I think you're occupying a very interesting spot in the community someone wants to help out get involved but isn't ready to to join a mr. Oliver Cisco vat19 what would you recommend I would recommend just keeping your eyes and ears out honestly because there's so many different organizations that have popped up and so many different movements like I just saw one called stop the spread and it's a spread of loshon hora group that has just started for people to take that initiative in their communities and I think there are a lot of things that people can do from home even for us for our group if you want to help there are ways to help from home we need people taking calls especially as college courses start again and I have to go back to school so there are definitely ways to help even from home and if you want to get in touch with us about helping in any way that you can even no commitment at all we have a website up look at that well how do we Adam Yvonne you it's called corona who said dot org I said with one s um that was created generously by le Cali someone who's on our team with us so that website will basically take you to all the different areas that were covering and will allow you to select which community you want to help in and you can direct us directly ad like contact us through those groups that's amazing as someone I was on the phone today and someone said like what's what are they saying the streets what's the word on the streets I said I just don't know I'm not in the streets anymore it's not there but you are and thank you so someone want someone wants a coffee or groceries or their prescription medication how do they how do they get that how do they how do they meet Nicole or one of Nicole 600 friends so hopefully they've seen one of our fliers which we're really really trying to spread around but if they haven't they can reach us by either email or phone the email is omnis rel co viz 19 at gmail and the phone number is 9 - 9 j head again with one s or email us hopefully we'll give you a prompt reply and then you can let us know how you know Nicole I have a question that I know as a common on college campus what are you studying and what you want to be when you grow up those are complicated questions for me because I don't really know I mean I'm studying neuroscience this is where we ask the hard questions this is oh I'm studying neuroscience I'm gonna be graduating in May Reds a sham I don't know my plans for the future this has this experience changed that in any way you know it really has first of all it's shown me that there's so many ways to be successful there's so many ways to be helpful that don't require previous knowledge or previous experience I've never ever been involved with running or organizing anything quite frankly and this just really showed me that if you care about a community and out the cuvette you care about something enough you can create your own ways to help and that's just something that's inspired me because I don't have to fit into like one thing that's already prepared for me necessarily that's while okay and then the the question that's really on everyone's mind why consistently one s and I said it's a great question first of all a lot of the domains with two S's are already taken there's so much I said thank God out there there's so much going on that they they vote this squatted on all the all the websites all the virtual real estate yeah exactly and also it fits with the phone number and the right amount of numbers so if the first letter was jayjay facade I said 9999 so each thing has like a reference ahead in reference to 999 is so if anybody if anybody needs something the the place that goes on Easter all kovat 19 yes please come we want people to be asking for help we have a lot of volunteers a lot of help we just need you to contact us you need help nothing is too small it's not embarrassing top admit that you need help so please just contact us so we can help you that those are inspiring words Nicole thank you for doing this thank you for stepping up thank you so much thank you for joining us you are on oh you live I'm rabbi David Pardo we have an incredible lineup for you later tonight we have you spinner soon a good friend of mine in the meantime I just want to encourage everybody who is watching on Facebook like the page so you can find that about future shows if you're on youtube hit subscribe hit the bell if you have comments questions suggestions frankly I got too many too many nice things too many compliments I'm looking for criticism I'm looking for someone you know my my wife wants some some fodder oh you live at OU you org in the meantime I'd like to introduce a friend of mine David Bush Afghan the other Bush Afghan is the director of education friends he's why he's the author of sin agog and he is very handy at operating his web cam on zoomed of it how you doing I am phenomenal I am really uh are you at your peak getting used to this new reality kids are asleep and I am I am ready and it is an absolute joy to be here with your very cool earbud and your blue background it's a joy thank you thank you when we actually when we we bought the house I kind of I'm afraid that the previous owners are watching I don't want them to know I thought this room was like way too blue and we just never got around to painting it and now like Joe has a reason oh you live and a blue huge massive basement is exactly what the doctor ordered that's what it is that's why God God has a plan for everyone and everything every detail beautiful so I'm glad now your kids are asleep and you're finally able to start working the day's been very quiet right super quiet super quiet great day you're working on a lot of interesting things there a lot of interesting things going on during the day one could you share with us what when I call you in the middle of day what I'm interrupting well I wear many different hats but my primary focus has been on NC sy and bringing NC is why virtually and I think every organization has been tested in transitioning into this new virtual reality and I think it's been really exciting of what Colliers for all what the world is capable of and see us why this past week we had interviews with rabbi dr. Akiva tats with my dear friend Charley our re with Rabbi lor Jonathan Sacks we had not your dear friend Lord we're not there yet we're not there yet I dressed him that way initially and he corrected me like it's actually rabbi Lord it's not dear friend which I appreciated greatly oh we're not there we'll get there and I aside from that across the regions the all the local program event sees why has shifted online as well whether it's Lotte and learning we have column bigs going on this week every organization every connection that I'm involved in has really been shifting to this new reality and it is disorienting it is exciting it's doing podcasts and videos with kids banging down the door it's been do any of your kids join you on a zoom call yet all of my classes at University have had a cameo appearance of one of my children that's part of tuition as you get a little bit of face time with babies Evy or baby Kira and it's part of the joy of being in my class absolutely okay are they are they screaming is that part of the deal or that's bonus when they can be on cameras Evie we have worked through the process of why I sometimes have to lock my office door but more often than not he will come on and I will ask them and it's actually quite touching I asked him Devi why don't you have school today and my three soon-to-be 4 year old child says in his very sweet voice because people are sick which way he knows it's endearing it's touching the hurts world and like most of the Jewish people I think there's it's a reset it's when I go to my back yard it feels like 1992 and when I step out into my living room it feels like 1892 I don't understand yeah you're gonna explain that yeah in the back it feels like 1992 because it feels like an episode of home improvement where we're all kind of talking over the fence feels like Wilson is in all my backyards and we're kind of peering through seeing from the from the nose up my neighbor and I have a disagreement of which one of us is Wilson that's actually a real ongoing banter and my my living room feels like 1892 because it's it's like before institutionalized organizational Judaism and our living room is the koto Shack adduction and my wife and I were the Kohanim and the children are out there just waiting for the programming waiting for all of the avodah and there's something very sweet about the fact that it's it's sending back the clock before there were you Shiva's dotting the country dotting the United States dotting Europe our home is the Essenes on our home is the dorm our home is the shul the basicness s and the base mattress it feels like 1892 inside of my living room you're the you're the amazing the Kohen Gadol you're also the lunch lady Ross the janitor you're also the Entertainer I don't wear my lunch lady outfit though the lunch lady where I went to elementary school still has a massive influence on my day to day life on your on your fashion sense son no not my taxes I appreciate you asking that no I'm just gonna tradition you know you see every detail of what goes into the school system and I feel like every Shabbos table conversation where people are grunting and groaning about tuition and teachers and this and that spend four days trying to program an uplift inspire educate children and we have a lot to be grateful for but we also have a lot in this new reality to explore discover and then once again be grateful for I I think a lot of people are finding an incredible amount of respect for teachers that they didn't have before I definitely see the jokes on Twitter but I also see I see the like III see the difficulty the truth is my my wife's a teacher and the schedule is bonkers because she hasn't stopped teaching and my kids are I I love your thing about 1892 i don't see it because my kids are on tablets no it just you know maybe maybe we should just shout at the tablets i honest honest to god it just happened 20 years ago i don't know what i would do it would go so south so fast with no technology with no equipped with something else i mean i remember i mean we were kids a little bit more than 20 years ago and I mean I was able to occupy myself it was GI Joes and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and all of the great toys I mean was I able to spend six hours uninterrupted playing with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with my little brother or my friends down the block the answer is absolutely yes and one new boy what a long way it almost frightens me or kids still playing with action figures I have no idea to know the answer to that question is how old your oldest three almost four got it so my my oldest three to two are our girls and there's Duffy dolls there's a lot of dolls I don't know about action figures my youngest has a son and he mostly eats the toys so action figures were the bread and butter of my childhood and I hope that my son at some point is to relive whether it's uh you know now there are a solution companies make little men cheese or whatever we have we have a whole shul I don't want to tell you what we had to pay for it but there is the you know those missed opportunity that you didn't bring it out now and kind of play something for us there's time there's time to run upstairs it's right okay the man was John law and you can you can clip the Tallis on or off and there's a women's section and a men's section and there's McKeith it's incredible I have found that everyone now is grasping towards nostalgia and everything that I've been sharing has been playing up on the nostalgia whether it's with our music and I it's an absolute honor to be the opener for the great get see spinner we've interacted once or to know for real it's a legitimate honor my childhood dream was to be a Miami Boys Choir and the music that we're listening to in our house the games that we're listening to our it's grasping at nostalgia because it feels like we're in a different time right now it doesn't feel like I don't know what day it is I don't know what month it is and I'm starting to question what year it is if that good it's that good it's that good I'll tell you we've rediscovered family dinner that's and family lunch so that's I don't know we rediscover family much I think that's the first time ever a lot of people have been saying that I wish I could say exactly the same we haven't quite been you know read we've we've reimagined what family time looks like I mean when you work for a Jewish organization and you're working whether it's uh the oh you or NCS Y or my magazine tablet or any of the different places that I'm dancing in when you're working in being a content provider this is actually the hardest time because it's really 24/7 people have this insatiable appetite for content that it feels at this point like a lot of it is a little bit of empty calories and what we've been careful what do you mean bands of calories that their their desires with them I feel like when it comes to content consumption and you know when you're spending so much time on your phone have you ever you know had a bag of potato chips or for me it's pistachios and you know that you're only gonna stop eating like five minutes or 20 minutes after you're full and it's gross that Domino snacks Domino snacks yeah you're just eating an attribute into your mouth and I think in many ways that's a little bit of the content now I think that people aren't sitting and reading the longer articles which they should be there now you know the best moment I had was Tuesday which was my low point what were they the driven week safe yeah Dana driven weeks my low point was on Tuesday and I went outside on Tuesday and I realized that I was way behind on the daf I was under this misconception that the rabbinic leadership had suspended off Yomi in light of the pandemic I thought maybe they should do it I don't know who's listening but maybe that's an idea yeah I'm not a hundred percent sure I'm in the Daath I don't know I'm not like out of the DAF yet Accio me and before I knew it I was like three and a half block behind and I just went outside without you know my phone turned on and I sat outside learning DAF Yomi and it was the best moment of my entire week finding some routine some long-term project whether it's DAF you owe me or another learning you owe me or documentary you owe me whatever it is finding a routine that you're doing every day to just restore some order in your life and give some structure to your time you've uh so you've kept learning up that's what I'm hearing I've kept a little bit of learning up and it's not even like I'm learning so in depth it's because I need that comfort food of that routine and that's really been uh it's been it's been a it's been an old friend that a close friend and it's nice to be reunited after realizing that I had neglected it for a day or two Ostrava ashrae newest ratha have you what have you uh even reading anything recently or learning anything recently that's worth sharing I I've been thinking this week and it like tugged at my heartstrings at the introduction to schmira Shabbos KL cosa I've been thinking a lot about Chavez recently because last Shabbos and I'm sure this Shabbos is eerie for a lot of people people are heading into Shabbos I I had a phone call with somebody last night who does not really have anybody at their Shabbos table and they were crying they were they were simply best of what Shabbos is going to feel like and I was thinking about the introduction of Revolver schmear Shabbos Cahill cosa where he points out in this week's car shove i aquel am i right is vyek Oh we'll know in a couple weeks when he says he quotes the Med rich that basically says that in the entire Torah the only Mitzvah that is introduced with the words of a aquel is the mitzvah of Shabbos and the reason why he says is because Shabbos is so central our notion of community and it feels like now we have to reimagine what that vehicle moment is and I had just written in Makaha magazine which is coming up this week that I have the opportunity one time to have a meal with someone I could call it dear friend Ruth of enlistments team who hooks the headlines podcast and we were at his job as well his Shabbos meals are extraordinary and extravagant they're wonderful and there's all sorts of wine and meat and food everything around the table and we were singing the summer of baroque El Elyon and he turned around he stopped the meal and he says wha T's and Shabbos is described commensal Navas why do you think we're describing Shabbos as a Mensa the carbon Mensa is the weakest most impoverished carbon that we have why don't we describe Shabbos is like a more glorious more wonderful Shabbos you look around this table he had this sham al which I never drink an ale before his fancy wines and all this wonderful stuff well he said why do you think we describe it as a Mensa Shabbos should be something far more opulent something far more wonderful and he looked around and he said I want you all to know something my Shabbos table did not always feel this way it was not always like this there was a time when I did not have a lot of money it couldn't afford to have guests couldn't afford to have fancy food it was much more simple it was much more interior the focus of Shabbos wasn't on the glory necessarily but it was almost on that smaller Mincy Amaka vos reality and what he told everybody around the table was that we need to be able to have the capacity to discover the warmth of Shabbos even in those massive last moments and when I read the introduction of schmira Shabbos Chios Casa I speak about the vehicle component the communal component of Shabbos I realized that there's a mental map of us there's a simplicity and a interior even to the way that we gather as community I think many people around the world are going to be feeling that and experiencing that this coming Shabbos but I hope we're able to both discover and cherish that minnfarm a colossal reality of it those are beautiful words can mean ha Alma Hobbit can we take away with us David thanks for joining us David if people want to find you like the three people who don't know who you are they want to find you online where do they find you please I'm a frequent tweet tweeter you'll find me at Dee bash ideas you could go to the NC sy website where we have all of our virtual programming I could find me in the pieces of magazine on tablet podcasts is there a book anyone could God Lord is a bug what is it right here is that my signed copy you may never get one we may never see each other in person again this has been such an absolute pleasure thank you so much for inviting me creating and hopefully will be participating on this wonderful program amazing Deborah thanks for come and have a good Shabbos my pleasure have a great javis you are on ou you alive my name is reveille David Pardo it's been a awesome time together I want to thank the frölunda family Marla and Stan for hey it's e for sponsoring tonight's show if you are tuning in if you're watching on Facebook hit like button you're on YouTube hit subscribe and hit the bell if you have thoughts questions comments suggestions oh you live at OU u org or drop it in the comments down below it is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to spinner you see how are you I'm good how are you I'm amazing how you hold it up we're doing well welcome to the principal's office and the gym and every other school room all wrapped in one that is also the Kurdish Kadesh room because David is the cone got all in his house Hey well then now we'll leave that leave that for his house nowhere everyone hears I had yelled but we're all proper to be okay listen we we all serve our roles no no Kohanim in this house either we're not that lucky what's uh what's tell me what's uh what's new what's life been like in the life has been life has been interesting you know everyone has their own version of what life is almost hour to hour minute to minute day to day depending on your what's going on from people who are on their own to people who are trying to figure out with their kids for us it's been it's been a lot of creativity trying to keep everyone entertained and organized running tech support the school system here has been really tremendous in keeping the kids educated and just entertained and and just everything that they've been doing is really really wonderful which is great for the kids it hasn't been as much for the adults which is just tremendous that you've been able to put this program together oh you really it really understands that uh after hours adults need a little bit of stimulation as well and this is this is a great place to be so thank you for having me and thank you for for enabling this to be well it's it's that much warmer that now that you're here and and thanks for the kind words please I see a piano this is my piano this is my baby well dude I I've never asked he musicians nicknamed pianos is it like racecars I don't know I got you I guess some do I don't okay no I never did it's just my piano it's your piano I would be so honored if you would uh if you'd break the piano out and and share some music with us I would love to share sure a couple a couple little things so Shabbos this Shabbos is going to be weird I can't think of another word to really describe job is other than weird it's almost uncomfortable in walk word to not go to shul you know especially when like as a professional cause and my life is Shabbos morning I wake up early I'm up before 6:00 every shot this morning because I got to get I gotta get my voice in shape I have to just make sure I'm awake and fed and hydrated and then this Shabbos is just not last Shabbos was not and we struggled here in the spinor home trying to figure out how to make Shabbos Shabbos and make it feel and feel like Shabbos and even more importantly for us make it sound like Shabbos so we had a Kabbalah Shabbos here right here at the piano we had I think about a thousand people joining with us which was pretty incredible were the largest Kabbalah Shabbos you've ever played it was definitely the largest Cobo Shabbos I've ever played on social media yes I believe it was the largest social largest gathering I've ever had first for Kabbalah Chaves which is pretty cool the friend of mine commented on social media that it was both the most inspiring and depressing thing at the same time that that's what we that's what we have now for Kabbalah shops but you know we're all coming together it's those times it's it's everything is the opposites it's the status it's the happiest it's the eeriest it's the most beautiful I think it's what you make of it I think it's really just what what you make of it so we sat so we sat here and we sang we sang our Shabbos songs without everybody else without the whole the whole community we sang it to our own community of five here in the spinner home so one piece that I love singing I do in in concert repertoire I do it in shul but when I do a show I don't have a piano but now I'm piano so will will imagine where we're all together anybody who's out there please feel free to join I know it's always a crowd favorite for Shabbos mourning doffing but it's a treat for me to be able to sing this with other people with that with the piano as well so I hope everyone out there at home will enjoy and sing if not just enjoy even listen [Music] Wow incredible Thursday night after a full day of school no less what do you mean this is uh oh my god sheesh me what is it what was it causing me Shiva I'm not that old Mitch mark nish marsh Mira schmear is when you have the your gun and you're walking around it there yeah is Mitch smart I assume everyone at home as they're trolling ready by now otherwise it'd be a big Busha we do not have a child ready yet tomorrow tomorrow this house and your session will have the aroma of fresh challah showmen not really the challenge really doesn't fill the house until Shabbos morning it's more chicken soup chalant mix before Shabbos and then you wake up Shabbos morning and you open that door and you just get you know Oh punched in the face by that fresh chocolate that's what I look forward to I'm a high much sense yes as I guess Mac that was I want you to know I was singing along I just muted for for your benefit and for all the listeners that was very beautiful we have uh we have a we have a minute yeah a minute have a minute I'll give you one minute of something that I was actually just sitting at the piano earlier today and I don't know where this song came how this song came to me but uh but it came to me and I started and my wife started singing along I know where she knows it from I don't know why it came into my into my head that here's where it was [Music] you have to check this song out it's it's from I looked at I had to look it up to see words from the marvellous Meadows machine I know you know my sister's gonna kick me thank God she lives in Israel so I have several hours so she wakes up and kicks me I just I don't know I didn't know how it starts I yeah but once you get the core is just there you go brings it brings you back yeah yeah I have to work on that song I have to really like internalize the song over thirty years of absence from my brain and kind of just relearn it the way that it was you know like it's in my head from camp from when I was little when it was just a nice color war song but but there's so much meaning to it both from a musical side and from a lyrical side that I really just have to this is relearning it mean relearning the original or does it mean putting your imprint on it as a musician it means understanding the song when I learn a song without really understanding it I'm just learning lyrics for camp for color war so that I can yell them as loud as possible so I can get four points for my team I really never I never dug into the lyrics and what they meant it was just about knowing the next word but there's there's really a lot of depth to that I don't know who wrote the lyrics it may have been a B Rotenberg I know he produced he was involved in writing music for marvelous Minos machine but there's so much depth to this song musically uh yeah I'd love to maybe do a cover of it something I don't know I have to let it sit with me a little bit Wow well thanks for sharing that it's for listeners you you heard it here first incredible you see thank you for those of everyone watching wants to hear more where do they find you you can find me I'm on social media yeah yitzy spinnerets yit zy spi n na r look for me there look for me on on youtube and uh when you see me in the street when we get past this come on over and say hello amazing sounds good thanks for joining us have a beautiful shot of us and you as well thanks so much alright everyone thanks so much for joining this has been oh you live this is the second installment I'm rabbi David I want to hear from you I want to know what you think of the show I want to get some feedback and some suggestions we have a very cool lineup for the following week we have some spots open if there are people you think should be on the show please let us know our thanks again to the frölunda family to Marla and Stan and what they had in mind the course of the rafale majalis role we're all Dava ting we're all diving together and there's so many things that we could be doing even from our homes in the meantime this is Ben oh you live I'm rabbi david Pardo and have a beautiful Shabbos you [Music]